Trump gets the peaceful transfer of power his supporters violently refused four years ago

The other side just pushed the rope, it doesn't necessarily put the other side at any more of an advantage than just letting go, but it absolutely puts you at a disadvantage because well, you just can't be bothered to pull that rope as well as signalling you're not willing to play the game. Rejecting progressives was pushing the rope, Liz fucking Cheney and all the Republican pandering was pushing the rope. The last minute drop out was pushing the rope.

I'm not giving these shitters another vote until they run serious progressive politicians and policies. We are at rock bottom, and I'll be damned if I enable this shit again.

Over 90 million eligible voters didn't vote for either Trump or Harris in 2024. If Democrats had managed to get just a few percent of those people to vote for them in key swing districts, she would have won. I think they could have done that without having to "act like Republicans."

About 10 million people agree with you judging by the election results.

So you don't want them to punish politicians who break the law? 🤔 Because Republicans don't mind making politicians in the other side pay for their mistakes, but Democrats always let them have a free pass in the name of "healing 🥰"

The British lost in the Revolutionary War partly due to their rigidity towards tradition and formality.

To your point, we should not be voting for candidates from either major party.

in a vacuum this isnt the wrong thing to do, but in context this is the capstone of a series of "we've tried nothing and we're out of ideas".

Firehosing wet gristle into the storm drains after multiple entrenched units opened fully automatic fire at head level into the crowd.

Followed by oooh, let's call it 150 years of denying it ever happened and using the phrases "Bloody Tuesday" "Inauguration elimination" or "January 6th. 2025" in any online medium results in an annual audit for your entire extended family and local police having a picture of you and a set of darts delivered.

There are but the Dems refused to use them.

at this point the media and internet is mostly dominated by republican sympathetic sycophants, its going to be incredibly hard for the democrats to ever win again. they're going to do everything in their power to move the peices to secure the GOP's control indefinetely, so that even once Trump is dead, they'll still win the elections. because guess what, people are fickle, petty, and stupid. and its very easy to use the media, TV Internet or otherwise, to sway opinions.

I am not blind that this is likely just as much Foreign involvement as it is domestic action. Russia is pulling a lot of the puppet strings behind this movement. So much so that I think they even have leverage on not just Trump, but probably Elon Musk too. Elon is small potatoes compared to the wealth of Vladimir Putin, a man who stole from a cartoonishly wealthy in material country for 25 years and put it straight into his pockets.

By normalizing these behaviours yhu create the moral and political framework in which your opponent thrives. Fascist dont need to win. They can just wait for "Democrats" to dismantle themselves.

Also pretending like the Democratic party isnt big on lying, cheating and stealing too, does not help either. They lost because what they pretended to be and what they really are disparged a lot. The Trumpists are honest about who they are, so they attract the same kind of people, wheras the Dems did everything to alienate people with morals.

And then the Dems turned around and attacked the minorities they pretended to want to protect from Trump, because they didnt suck up to them anymore.

lieing

It's "lying". It's spelled the same as lying (down).

I remember when you could buy a 2x4 for a buck. It wasn't that many years ago.

They won’t think much of anything, considering what Trump is about to do to the Department of Education.

Just be glad most of us won't be around anymore to find out

Mine were the ones fleeing Italian fascism who thought this would be better.

Make a Google calendar event with a permalink to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, but it requires learning. You may not have that option soon with what Republicans ran on doing to our education system.

No I mean if they threw a fit and caused a ruckus like Republicans. Some have been calling for that and knowing the Democrat reaction back then, it would've been funny.